Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Yellville’s household incomes are lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Yellville; the top destination outside it is Mountain Home (12%, 18 miles). Poverty touches 15.8% of residents (Arkansas 16.0%). Yellville grades D for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Yellville, in a few figures
Yellville is where the jobs are
Yellville has 761 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 330 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Yellville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Yellville is better than 6% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Yellville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($37,813, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.2%) is left out: Yellville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Yellville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How a workday changes Yellville
On a workday 289 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 720 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Yellville on a workday afternoon, 39% more than live here.
2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Half of Yellville commutes less than 23 miles
About 37% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Where the people who work in Yellville live
Where Yellville clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What the 761 jobs in Yellville are
761 jobs are based in Yellville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yellville, 2014 → 2024: 699 → 761. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Yellville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Yellville, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yellville workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 500 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Arkansas: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Good to walk, short on transit: Yellville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yellville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.0% across Arkansas, on an EPA index of 8.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 516 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.5% of Yellville households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yellville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Yellville is 3,298th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 315 | Wooster AR | 1,150 | $112K | 5.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,006 | Redfield AR | 1,492 | $72K | 8.3% | 3.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,296 | Thurman NY | 1,090 | $59K | 19.2% | 5.5% | 5% | D |
| 3,297 | Montgomery VT | 1,225 | $53K | 15.6% | 16.1% | 4% | D |
| 3,298 | Yellville AR | 1,095 | $38K | 15.8% | 6.2% | 12% | D |
| 3,299 | Central City IL | 1,067 | $45K | 29.1% | 7.2% | 1% | D |
| 3,300 | Caldwell KS | 1,000 | $44K | 12.8% | 8.8% | 16% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Yellville, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
How Yellville compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Yellville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellville | – | D | A | 21 min | $37,813 |
| Summit | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Summit: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Yellville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Yellville: questions
What is the median household income in Yellville?
$37,813 (±$7,138) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yellville?
15.8%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yellville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yellville work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mountain Home (12%, 18 mi), Harrison (10%, 24 mi), Little Rock (6%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Yellville walkable?
Yellville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yellville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yellville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yellville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.